Twin Rivers Interfaith Food Pantry (TRIFP) soon will begin the Christmas holiday with a special invitation just for you. Shortly after Thanksgiving, we will be setting-up our “Warming Tree” located in the Pantry reception room. We plan not to place garlands nor lights upon the limbs of this tree. For now, just a simple plain tree will stand.

Now we ask that you take a moment and remember a time during one of our past bitterly cold winter months when you lost or forgot something to protect, let’s say, your hands or ears from the elements. Did you say to yourself how quickly the cold sunk deep down into the marrow of your bones?

So many of your neighbors who visit us every month know very well how the extreme cold affects their bodies. Young or older, weak or strong, all have no other option but face winter going without simply because of living with poverty.

Here is your invitation from all of us here at TRIFP. Help decorate the “Warming Tree” with maybe some toasty warm mittens or gloves, heavy blankets folded neatly under the tree, scarfs, hand warmers, lip salves, and many, many other ways for all our sisters and brothers in need to keep themselves protected.

Drop by anytime we are open — Tuesday and Thursday 9 to 11 AM and Wednesday 5 to 7 PM — or call us at 934-2662 for additional ways to decorate our tree. Most of all, thank you for caring and sharing your decorating talents with us!